law, time, and place: a lund perspective on legal history Humboldt grant, and had formed a close connection to Sten Gagnér in Munich.His major historical project on Nordic legal scholarship resulted in an impressive four-volume work on its intellectual history.29 With his impressive production in Nordic legal history he has been instrumental in building up the discipline, and when the law faculty at Lund awarded him an honorary degree in 2003 it was to honour a respected colleague who is kindness itself. Starting in 1980, Lund’s seminar in legal history arranged regular meetings and excursions with our colleagues in Copenhagen. We also made research trips to the Netherlands and Germany and even to the US. On one early visit to Germany we came to know Michael Stolleis in Frankfurt am Main, then a young professor at the law faculty, having started his career as Gagnér’s research assistant in Munich. He introduced us to new, important research on the unlaw of the Nazi regime. At the time of our visit in 1980 he had just written his article on Nazi law for the Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte, the Handbook of German Legal History.30 Reconciliation with the recent past became one of the most intense scholarly discourses in the 1980s and 1990s, and had a great impact on the Nordic legal historians.32 Stolleis also pioneered in the field of Juristische Zeitgeschichte, contemporary legal history.33 The Lund contingent found ourselves included in this important discourse about facing up to the past, which has also been an important topic for 29 Lars Björne, Den nordiska rättsvetenskapens historia, i: Patrioter och institutionalister (Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 52; Lund: Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, 1995), ii: Brytningstiden(Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 58; Lund: Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, 1998), iii: Den konstruktiva riktningen 1871–1910 (Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 60; Lund: Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, 2002), iv: Realism och skandinavisk realism 1911–1950 (Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 62; Stockholm: Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, 2007). 30 Michael Stolleis, ‘Nationalsozialistisches Recht’, in Adalbert Erler & Ekkehard Kaufmann (eds.), Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte, iii (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1984), 873– 92; see also id., The Law under the Swastika: Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). 31 Ditlev Tamm, Retsopgøret efter besættelsen(Copenhagen: Jurist og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 1984); Kjell Å. Modéer, ‘Det tredje riket inför rättshistorien: En litteraturöversikt’, Svensk Juristtidning (1996), 108 ff. 32 Michael Stolleis (ed.), Juristische Zeitgeschichte—Ein neues Fach? (Frankfurt amMain: Nomos, 1993); id., Nahes Unrecht, fernes Recht: Zur Juristischen Zeitgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014). 31
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